Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 465
"Oh?" Old Zhu was skeptical, seeing Zhu Biao's face, and finally unfolded the memorial.

Originally, he thought that what was written in this memorandum was just a memorandum that Li Shanchang voted for the favor of the palace, showing that he supported the collection of business taxes since then, and bowed his knees to beg the palace for forgiveness.

But the more he watched, the more serious Lao Zhu's expression became.

"Come on! Go to Xuan Laowu, and Mr. Liu is here to see us!"

After reading the memorabilia, Lao Zhu couldn't help standing up abruptly, paced around the hall and thought for a while, and finally called Erhu, asking him to summon Liu Bowen and Zhu Su into the palace for discussion.

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At this time, Zhu Su was still struggling with the affairs of the Imperial College.

The matter of the emperor confiscating the amulets and iron coupons of noble soldiers has long been rumored in the city. The literati were all celebrating with each other.

Originally, now that Daming has taken back Liaodong and Yunnan, the ancestral land is already in hand, and Beiyuan is already at the end of its battle, there is no need to spend so much tax money to support so many people every year just to fight with Yuanting. soldiers and warriors.Your Majesty's move is just to emulate the old wisdom of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin drinking wine to release military power. Next, he will treat the literati with courtesy and rule the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats.

But at this time, the cakes painted for the nobles that night spread like wildfire, and the literati couldn't help shouting: Not only are they not going to abandon the warriors, but they are going to give them titles, making them lonely and outnumbered. Above the literati?

This...how can this work?Who is it that slanders His Majesty?
Then just at this time, Zhu Su asked Song Lian to compile the first edition of the Guozijian teaching outline, and "On Huaxia" was published. The book started from the Zhou Rites of the Western Zhou Dynasty, experienced the rise and fall of China for thousands of years, and finally pointed out that the prosperity of China lies in pioneering and enterprising; The decline lies in being self-styled.Anyone who reads should inherit the learning of the ancestors, inherit the aspirations of the ancestors, and expand China.

This article is Song Lian's painstaking efforts, the words are magnificent and the sentence is beautiful, and the end is a wonderful article.But it just happened to stab the hornet's nest. The literati ignored the knowledge in the text and accused the Guozijian of bewitching the public with gossip.

All of a sudden, among the literati, the Guozijian students were shouted and beaten by everyone, so that among the students who had persisted before, many of them were forced to leave prison due to pressure.There are not many people left in the Imperial College of Nuo Da.

It has become a big joke of Guochao.

"It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable!" As the author of the article, Song Lian trembled angrily. "Among these people, there are many well-educated people, who actually ignored the meaning of the article and insisted on dragging the article into superficial civil and military struggles!"

"Husbands of Huaxia, obey rules and etiquette, and crown the world. Let overseas people show etiquette, know shame, and follow our Chinese system. This is exactly what the sages said to spread enlightenment and benefit the world! How can it be purely based on martial arts? "

"These people take the meaning out of context and make it far-fetched... Really, really unreasonable!"

Old Master Song's complexion turned purple with anger.

"Why are you so angry?" Liu Bowen, who had already taken over the position of teaching, comforted Song Lian with kind words. "Didn't Your Highness come to a conclusion before? This generation of scholars, how can they understand the subtle words and righteousness of the saints? They just use the knowledge of the saints as the stage of promotion. Even the words of the saints have been changed beyond recognition by such people for thousands of years. What's more, Brother Song's writing?"

"In my opinion, behind this matter, there must be a push from the North Korean Chinese. It will not be that simple." Liu Bowen asserted.

Zhu Su nodded secretly, he also thought so.These literati were instigated by Qi Qi, although there was a reason for the accumulation of dissatisfaction among the literati with the "new learning" they admired, but it must also be someone who fanned the flames behind.Zhu Su could even guess the identities of these people. They must be the civil servants in the court. Seeing that Li Shanchang was unreliable, he deliberately caused a disturbance.

"How can knowledge be used to compete with the court?" Song Lian was even more angry. What the Imperial College is doing now is a major event that concerns China for a hundred years and reshaping the learning of sages.

"It doesn't matter. In the long run, this matter is not a problem at all. Our country's Zijian is an official school, and those people make a lot of noise. After all, it is a disease of mustard moss. As long as the imperial court selects talents according to the new way of learning, those literati will be holding back The nose also needs to learn something new." Zhu Su said. "It's just a bit of a headache in the short term. First, the number of students is decreasing day by day. The Guozijian promises a big name. It can't be so troublesome that there are no students to teach."

"The second is the voice of doubt about "On Huaxia". Although "On Huaxia" is full of true knowledge, there must be someone who can discern gold. However, most people in the world are followers of the trend. It is not good for the spread of new learning."

"New learning is my century-old plan for the Ming Dynasty, and it must not be missed. The most urgent thing is to let the people in the world know the ideas in "On Huaxia". One point should be refuted, and it should be passed on to the world, so that everyone knows what kind of bad intentions that old literati really have."

"Shengyuan, I have an idea." Liu Bowen laughed. "Confucius said that there is no distinction between teaching and learning. Why don't we take this opportunity to recruit the sons of poor families into prison. Before I was in the Huangzhuang, I trained hundreds of sons from the village."

"These children are so smart, they just fill the quota of the Imperial College, and if the poor families have the opportunity to continue studying, they will definitely flock to them. No matter what the old literati say."

"Good." Zhu Su also nodded. "Those who oppose the new learning are actually mostly landlords and squires, who claim to be heirs of farming and education, but in fact they do not touch the spring water. It is we who have exposed them for thousands of years. Talking about Fengyue, unwilling to seek happiness for the essence of the world, this will cause their backlash."

"But among the poor students, there are many who agree with our new learning. We can set up an entrance examination, and anyone who can pass the test can go to the Imperial College for free. Only by cultivating our own literati can we compete with the old literati. "

When Song Lian heard this, he also nodded, and the old man turned his anger into joy, and clapped his hands and said: "Wonderful! In this way, those people smearing us, it has become an act of selecting talents for my new study! After blowing away the yellow sand, we will see Jin, those half-hearted supervisors, don't mind!"

Liu Bowen also nodded.Then he said: "Then on the second point, does Your Highness have a plan? Now that the trend of polluting my new learning is rampant, those people have no intention of arguing with us, they just want to smear it."

"It needs to be able to prevent my new learning from being stigmatized."

"In this matter, I do have a solution. It's just..." Zhu Su showed embarrassment.In the past few days, Xinxue literati headed by Fang Xiaoru have also set up an forum to debate with those students who discredited Xinxue, but most of these literati are obviously not speaking reason. The keyboard warriors, they don't care what the truth is right or wrong, they just want to use words to smear, and vividly spray down the newly sprouted new learning.

Originally, Zhu Su had no fear of such trolls.Isn't it just louder than anyone else? As long as you use the two killer weapons of leaflets and newspapers, sooner or later, these trolls will be sprayed back to the point of throwing away your armor.After all, most people just follow the trend mindlessly. As long as they grasp the direction of the right to speak, they will naturally turn against the new students.

However, Zhu Su encountered a big problem. Most of the working capital he can use now has been invested in the two bottomless pits of steelmaking and firearms research and development. He does not have enough money to run a large newspaper that can supply the entire Jiangnan money.What's more, he doesn't dare to take things that are related to the right to speak for himself. It's best to let Lao Zhu or his elder brother Zhu Biao come forward to undertake it. The killing weapon is in the hands of the imperial court, which is the safest way.

Otherwise, if someone realizes the power of public opinion, it would be easy for Zhu Su to set a precedent, and let others use the weapon of public opinion to counter the court, it would be terrible.

You must know that those old literati were originally very good at using public opinion and restraining imperial power.

But now the imperial court only collects a mere 10 taels of merchant tax.Although Lao Zhu took care of the nobles, there is still no conclusion on how to check the tax.Zhu Su also had no choice in this matter. After all, there was no one in the imperial court. After all, the Yushitai was just some high-minded Confucian scholars with uncommon affairs. What can be found out?

We can only wait for Lao Zhu to use thunderous means to kill one group of people and frighten another group of people. With this stupid method, can we make the first move of the business and tax law come out?
"Well, to put it bluntly, there is still no money to make trouble." Zhu Su sighed.Originally, I just wanted to ask the cheap daddy for some money to study and develop basic technology, but I didn't expect to make new learnings by myself, and clean up the nobles, but the money still has no shadow.Now the work of rebuilding the Imperial College and running the newspaper office has been added, so that Zhu Su wants to encourage Lao Zhu to start a big case and search the house directly, and use the stolen money to settle the matter first.

Science and technology are always the primary productive forces of a country, so there is no delay!If I remember correctly, in a few years, the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wa Kingdom will be unified.If before that, Daming cannot be allowed to form a weapon generation gap, and have the strength to deter Wajima while rejecting Yuanting in the north.

For the Ashikaga shogunate to unify the Wa country smoothly, it will be even more difficult for Daming to seek this place again.

"Your Highness Fifth, Mr. Qingtian, His Majesty summons you." Just as he was thinking, he heard someone coming from outside to report.

(End of this chapter)